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Signup to Generate a PitchThe History Onion is hosted by History Onion. The show has published 52 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How Progressives Can Win w/ Melat Kiros" (1 June 2026, 39 minutes), "The Murder of Víctor Jara (Modern Chile Ep. 8)" (4 May 2026, 64 minutes), and "Pinochet and Me, with Marc Cooper (Modern Chile Interview 3)" (13 April 2026, 117 minutes).
The History Onion publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 63 minutes across 52 episodes.
Booking probability for The History Onion is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The History Onion requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The History Onion's contact route on record: public web form.
History Onion hosts The History Onion, a history podcast with 52 episodes published.
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<p>Today we are re-releasing our interview with Melat Kiros, a progressive candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District. Originally published in October of 2025, our interview broaches topics including how to get...
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<p>Víctor Jara, sometimes referred to as the “Bob Dylan of South America,” was a Chilean folk singer who rose to prominence in the 1960s as part of the nueva canción movement. His songs were often deeply political in...
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<p>For our 50th episode (!!), we are excited to present our January interview with Marc Cooper.</p><p>Marc Cooper is the former associate professor and director of Annenberg Digital News at the USC Annenberg School for...
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<p>We are excited to share our interview with Juliana DeVaan, a PhD candidate in US history at Columbia University, where she studies 20th-century cultural and intellectual history.</p><p>Her work has been supported by...
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<p>We are excited today to share our interview with Ariel Dorfman, an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. Professor Dorfman served as a cultural adviser to...
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<p>We are excited to be joined on today’s show by investigative reporter and writer John Dinges. </p><p>John Dinges has decades of experience covering Latin America, including as a foreign correspondent in Chile, El...
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<p>We are excited to be joined today by Alex Williams, the principal US economist at Common Wealth, a progressive think tank operating across the US and UK, as well as a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for...
<p>Today, we are joined once again by Jack Meyer (check out our previous episode with him here: “Abundance, with Jack Meyer”). Jack is an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist...
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<p>The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was defined in large part by its brutally repressive nature. Its centralization of repression in the DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) and the centrality of repressive...
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<p>After a few months off, we are returning to our Modern Chile series with today’s episode. For our next episodes in this series, we will be covering the Pinochet years, defined primarily as the years between 1973 and...
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<p>This episode is the second installation in our series on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our first episode covered the very recent history of the conflict, looking at the round of violence that began in...
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<p>Today we are excited to release our excellent conversation with Professor Kristoffer Smemo, author of Making Republicans Liberal: Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise. Professor Smemo is a historian of...
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<p>This episode marks the first installation of a new mini-series for the podcast. The series will cover the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and will take as a central text guiding us through this history a...
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<p>For today’s episode, we spoke with Michael Foley, author of Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash, for a wide-ranging discussion about Cash’s politics. We dissect Foley’s framework of a “politics...
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<p>In this episode, we dig deep into the slop of AI discourse. We start by looking at the culture of hype that’s sprouted in Silicon Valley, then turn to the strange world that this hype has produced, and finally...
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<p>Today we are thrilled to release our interview with Melat Kiros, a progressive candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District. Kiros is running to unseat the longest-serving representative of Colorado’s current...
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<p>Today we are joined by Jack Meyer, an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist and economic historian. His current areas of study include innovation, development and inequality...
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<p>Today we are joined by Ross Barkan, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and essayist. Ross is the Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, and a columnist...
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<p>We are happy to announce our first interview episode, featuring friend of show Spencer Hacker! Spencer is a social worker, an activist, and a political content creator. He is based out of Denver, Colorado, and he is...
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<p>As soon as Allende won the 1970 presidential election, the US began plotting ways to prevent his ascension to power. With under two months before his victory would be confirmed by the Chilean Congress, the US moved...
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candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District, Democrat Socialist of America
former associate professor and director of Annenberg Digital News at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Solomon Partners
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